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Greenville, SC

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Addressing community health

Description: This project will construct raised garden beds and a hoop tunnel, allowing older adults to grow fresh fruits and vegetables for residents in need.

Miami, FL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Addressing community health

Description: This project expanded Miami's Walk4Life club into the city's downtown. It installed two digital message boards to highlight members' accomplishments, offer health tips and promote wellness events.

Tallahassee, FL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Addressing community health

Description: This project will support Wills on Wheels in a nine-county region. The mobile legal clinics will provide estate planning services to residents, including older adults.

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Roanoke, VA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions

Description: The project will stage an accessory dwelling unit design competition that will increase public awareness of this housing option. The competition will result in a set of plans that homeowners and developers can use to build an ADU on a single-family residential lot.

Roanoke, VA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Roadway/sidewalks/crosswalk improvement

Description: This project will make temporary changes along Ferdinand Avenue to demonstrate how streetscape design can reduce speeding and improve bicycle and pedestrian safety. The corridor connects two neighborhoods to a recreation center, community garden and business district.

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